Re: (type graphic)

From:

Andrew Innes

Subject:

Re: (type graphic)

Date:

26 Oct 2000 13:29:51 +0100

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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:28:08 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> said:
>If the number of supported colors is the _only_ reason, we can simply
>test how many colors are supported, and act accordingly, or define a
>new type, say '256color, to check inside defface instead 'tty. The
>advantage of this is that it will DTRT even if some character terminal
>supports lots of colors (I'm told that the w32 terminal can, in
>principle, do that, even if the current code doesn't yet support that).
To the best of my knowledge, the console support on Windows has the same
fixed 16-colour set as DOS has. I don't think apps can have any control
over the palette used in console windows.
AndrewI